Man Xbox is not welcome here

Corporate social media takes are universally 100% soy. They are too scared of the mob to be anything else.

Behind closed doors, Phil Spencer is edging to no death elden ring feeds.

I just start playing the game


Ain't got time to bleed, or not bleed.

I mean most of the time the lowest difficulty makes it borderline impossible to lose.

I don’t sit around concerning myself with how people choose to play a game they purchased. I would tell anyone that this personally effects to seriously consider their life choices.

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It’s like claiming you sent a climb after getting dragged up the cliff by your rope. You’re welcome to say you’ve stood at the summit; just don’t say you sent the climb. Feel free to say you’ve played, even finished, a game. But don’t say you beat it.

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Did I just walk into a shitstorm I’m not expecting?

Disagree. It’s no different than completing a sudoku puzzle, or anything else. Running around bragging about beating a game is just as lame as bragging about finishing a crossword puzzle, but definitely less lame than lying about finishing a crossword puzzle after looking up the answers.

To be honest, I kinda suck at video games. I really don’t pick up complicated modern games and instantly know how to win. I struggle, mightily, with basic stuff, and actually experience a great deal of anxiety around starting new games.

As a result, I really appreciate it when games, particularly RPG’s, have a difficulty slider that I can toggle during my play through. I can experience so much less stress and enjoy the story when I’m playing for the first time trying it out on low difficulty. Then, as I master the mechanics, I can scale it up. If I get stuck, I can scale back down to avoid having to spend too much time backtracking or grinding. When I first played F7 Remake, I played the first few chapters on the lowest difficulty, but by the end of the game, I was on the second highest difficulty. I followed a similar trend with Witcher 3.

Let’s be honest, life is stressful and unforgiving. It’s nice to come home and play games that are just…fun, pleasant, immersive, and an escape from stress rather than an addiction to it. Sometimes, I want to be challenged and pushed to my limits. Other times, I want to chill out. Sometimes, I need to vent and just want to dominate. Depends on the mood.

Playing on easy modes is fine.

Needing validation for playing on easy mode is lame and gay as hell

This is why I like the concept of matchmaking, it (when it works) places you right where you need to be in terms of difficulty in competition. As to how many developers actually get that right, or close, is an entirely different beast.

The problem with AI, is that AI can be programmed to be completely useless, or 100% impossible. So devs make concessions to meet an idea of "easy", or "normal", or "hard" etc. Player skill however is all over the map.

Playing a game as intended by the developer is the best way to go imo.